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"The first two years I had to decontaminate, in a positive sense," he told me.

That is, whatever comes on the island may never leave unless it's decontaminated.

Officials have struggled with how to decontaminate the two buildings.

We must decontaminate you quietly, so no one finds out.

The levels of radiation were safe and the area was decontaminated.

But the process of decontaminating his papers is taking longer than he had hoped.

To decontaminate the sludge, new measures had to be taken.

She says scientists will decontaminate these materials by washing them.

Boys back from skiing, clearly need to sleep for 24 hours after being decontaminated.

The approach has never been used before to decontaminate a building, and some senators are anxious.

He took a more pessimistic view of how long it would take to decontaminate the buildings.

Our suits had been decontaminated, but the team did not want to take them off, and then it occurred to me.

But there's also an effort to decontaminate and lift spirits.

We had to be decontaminated, which was painful and exhausting.

"The bodies have been disposed of and the hall is being decontaminated."

"Workmen have to be totally decontaminated when they leave the area."

The artifacts were decontaminated at a prison, then brought to Albany.

When the house was later stripped and decontaminated, some of her property had to be destroyed.

An environmental company had to be hired to decontaminate documents and furniture.

More than 80 firefighters had their clothing and equipment taken away to be decontaminated.

The department are looking at using nanotechnology to allow more fresh water to be decontaminated.

All equipment used must be decontaminated before removing them from the designated area.

After decontaminating the three of them, the medic turned to Jake.

Decontaminate other body areas likely to have been contaminated.

The workers wore protective clothing and were decontaminated when they left the site.